Thanks for the help John, I have reinstalled the j2ee archetype after making sure all the files were deleted. I have gone back to the file maven-metadata-central.xml and this still has the same information inside it.
The archetype plugin can now use this archetype without any issues, so what have I updated if it is not this file? Trent On 08/02/06, John Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > try re-installing it with the following command line option: > > -DupdateReleaseInfo=true > > That will update the RELEASE metadata. It would seem that there should > be a way to specify the archetype-artifact's version, though... > > -john > >